Atlantic History Speaker Series Presents Manuel Covo UCSB, History "The Entrepôt of Atlantic Revolutions. The French Colony of Saint-Domingue and Commercial Republicanism". Thursday, November 14 12:00PM - 1:30PM History Reading Room, 6265 Bunche Hall
Atlantic History Speaker Series Presents Kittiya Lee CSULA, History "Dressed to Impress: The Boundaries of Friendship and the Tupi Sovereign Body in Pero Vaz de Caminha’s 1500 Letter from Brazil" Thursday, January 23 12:00PM - 1:30PM History Conference Room, 6275 Bunche Hall
Atlantic History Speaker Series Presents Thabisile Griffin UCLA History Ann Barramont's Petition to Sell: Property Struggles and Colonial Insecurity in 18th Century St. Vincent Thursday, February 13 12:00PM - 1:30PM 6275 Bunche Hall
Please note that this event has been cancelled. Atlantic History Speaker Series Presents Herman Bennett "Kings and Slaves: Diplomacy, Sovereignty, and Black Subjectivity in the Early Modern World" Thursday, March 12 12:00PM - 1:30PM History Conference Room, 6275 Bunche
Atlantic History Presents Animal Slavery Conference April 23, 2020 10:00AM - 4:30PM Zoom Link - https://ucla.zoom.us/j/856588866
Atlantic History Presents The Early Modern Global Caribbean A Virtual Conference at The Huntington Library September 18, 2020 9:00AM For the conference schedule, please click here.
Alejandra Dubcovsky, Associate Professor of History, UC Riverside "Iquenibilahacu, iquibitila, Killed but not Extinguished, Centering Native Women in the Early South" Time: October 29, 2020 12:30-2:00pm You can register for this event here.
November 19, 2020 12:30 - 2:00 pm Thabisile Griffin, PhD Candidate, UCLA "Black Militias in the Era of Revolutions: Politics, Race and Labor" From 1781 to 1790, the British Caribbean military and colonial administrators struggled with renegotiating their racial truth systems - through a recalibration of defense. The last two decades of the century were […]
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This presentation centers on the story of Abba, an enslaved woman who was the mother of an unusually large family in eighteenth century Jamaica. Abba had been pregnant thirteen times. She had ten live births and one still birth. We come to know Abba’s story through the diaries of Thomas Thistlewood, notorious among scholars of […]
This talk has been POSTPONED. Future date TBD. This talk considers the process of writing about the life and work of the Caribbean philosophe Moreau de Saint-Méry (1750-1819). A lawyer, printer, naturalist, and translator who was at the forefront of revolutionary politics on two continents, Moreau was also a slaveholder who wrote about ideals of liberty even as […]
